Vardaraj (better known as Raj) Shetty runs the Ramee Group of Hotels & Resorts, one of the region’s largest home-grown hotel chains with 40 properties across the UAE, Bahrain, Oman and India. The group also operates a shopping mall in Chennai, India.
Shetty left the small town of Kalavara in India aged 18 and travelled to Saudi Arabia, where he worked in several hospitality roles before being given the chance to run his first hotel in Dubai aged just 25.
Since then, he has built up the Ramee Group with a Gulf-wide portfolio tipped for expansion — last year the group announced plans to open two five-star hotels in the UAE over the next three years, following the opening of its first five-star hotel in the GCC, the Ramee Grand Hotel and Spa in Bahrain.
Shetty is involved in numerous charitable activities, including offering special meals to the less fortunate during Eid and Diwali.
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